The sentence against Rodríguez and his controversial disqualification continues to produce important political consequences and a hard confrontation within the government central between the two partners that make it up, United We Can and the PSOE. The most important this morning was the request of the state direction of the purple formation of call for Batet’s resignation considering that his performance as the top leader of the Lower House has been “extremely serious” and a “shame”. “The president of Congress acts against the law, the report of the Congress lawyers and the judgment of the Supreme Court itself, which at no time condemns him to lose his seat,” claimed the spokeswoman for the state leadership of training, Isa Serra.
This position is not shared, however, by the leaders of the left-wing coalition who are not in the ranks of Podemos. Neither the Second Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz (PCE), nor the Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón (IU), nor the leaders of Catalunya En Comú, from political spaces other than the purple party, support this initiative of Podemos. Díaz, for example, advocated “to stop generating more noise in our country and let’s work for what we have to work for.” In a statement to La Sexta, he also sent “all” his “love” to Rodríguez, whom he described as “Friend”, and who considers that “is suffering a great injustice”; “We are friends. I love him very much, beyond sharing political space. ”
“Alberto is suffering a great injustice. We are friends and I love him very much, beyond sharing political space “
Refering to complaint for trespass announced on Friday, Serra and the other state spokesperson of the formation, Pablo Fernández, assure that the intention of the party was always to support the decisions that the already ex-deputy and ex-Canarian militant adopted, and that in those terms it was explained to the Confederal group and the United We can government space. So the decision taken on Saturday afternoon by Alberto Rodríguez himself, to renounce the lawsuit, will be respected and supported by Podemos. Both insisted that they would support all the legal initiatives undertaken by the former deputy. From the ranks of the PSOE there was no hesitation in defending Batet. “The President of Congress has limited herself at all times to comply with the law and the judgments issued by the courts,” declared the spokesman for the Executive Commission, Felipe Sicilia.
At the same time, Rodríguez himself, who has ratified his intention to attend amparo to the Constitutional Court as a previous step to the appeal before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), sent today a written to Batet for his “arbitrary” decision to withdraw his seat and requesting a response to a series of questions about the process that has led him to lose the act of deputy. In the letter, the former parliamentarian asks on what legal basis Batet has decided “to transform an accessory penalty of special disqualification for the right to passive suffrage during the time of the sentence into a deprivation of the seat”, thereby creating “a penalty not provided for in the sentence ”. In addition, Rodríguez recalls that he was elected in November 2019 and wonders about “which of the many precept contained in the organic law of the General Electoral System considers that the president of Congress has applied to him.”
Beyond the political tension between the members of the central government and the doubts about the legal interpretation of the Supreme Court ruling by Batet, the stupor that Rodríguez’s march has caused in the purple organization has been revealed, which nobody knew until he made it public on Saturday upon his arrival in Tenerife. You have also missed your comment on the “Limits of state parties from an archipelagic perspective”, and his veiled announcement of integrating in the future another political adventure outside of Podemos, a party of which he became Organization secretary and organic numbers three for almost two years between 2019 and 2021, noting that “the struggle continues, the Canary Islands are a land of struggle, no one here gives up.”
“Overexposure “
Formally, from the state leadership of Podemos they limit themselves to expressing their respect for the decision of the former Tenerife deputy, justifying it implicitly in the “difficult hours he is living” and for “the enormous injustice, which is unprecedented” of which consider you are being a victim. “We respect the path you follow, we will always be supporting you, and Podemos will always be your home,” they insist from the state leadership.
“We are sure that his commitment to the Canary Islands remains intact and we hope to meet on the way and in the fight to improve the lives of the people of our islands.”
From Podemos Canarias, your general coordinator, Laura Fuentes, was hiding behind the same arguments, clearly avoiding a political assessment of the Tenerife’s decision. “We respect his decision to leave Podemos, which is personal, and we understand it given the level of overexposure he has had and we wish him the best for the future,” said the training leader in the Islands. “We are sure that His commitment to the Canary Islands remains intact and we hope to meet on the road and in the struggle “, he emphasizes.” The Canarian people need it and we are sure that we will meet in the struggle to improve the lives of the people of our islands, “he insists Fuentes, who avoided clarifying whether he considered that the statements of his former partner in the militancy announced his entry into some other Canarian platform of the same ideological spectrum and, perhaps, of a more territorial nature.
The formation now faces the procedure for the replacement of Rodríguez in his seat in Congress, which in theory corresponds to Fatima Gonzalez, number two on the list of the United We Can coalition for Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the elections of 10-N, 2019. It so happens, however, that González was a candidate representing Izquierda Unida and there is still no record on whether there would be some kind of movement on the substitution. “Right now there is no certainty that no one is going to replace him (Rodríguez),” assured Fuentes, who stressed that “this replacement is not easy because Alberto Rodríguez is not replaceable, politically speaking, that is not our priority now ”.
In any case, both electoral partners in the Islands, Podemos Canarias and Izquierda Unida Canaria, planned to analyze this afternoon the situation on the path of executives from their respective directions. In any case, the process for the removal of Rodríguez has already begun in Congress and in the Central Electoral Board, that will meet on Wednesday to certify the dismissal of the already ex-deputy and inform the candidate who succeeded him on the list to inform her of her status as elected and, if she does not resign, present in the Chamber all the necessary documentation so that she can take possession of the seat in the plenary session next week.